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~ greatly outnumbered the people at the public |

be hearing who were objecting to the rezoning."

er In view of a failed apartment rezoning bid

me “on Eby St., and the very real possibility that
. Tribruck ‘would suffer a similar fate, we

a asked Brickal one final question. By our 7

_ - behaviour, were we discouraging other out-of-
-.town. developers from even considering in-
Lo _ vestment here? "Most definitely!" was his

4 gaply:

While we were. talking . to Bruckal, a

ee “eouneil-initiated traffic ‘study was -taking

“o" place, Before making their final. decision,

. . . they wanted a better understanding of what
woe “might really happen to the neighbourhood.

' The. traffic: “study. was a rather stormy ©

affair, A numh er of. unconfirmed -reports
emerged. Someone wanting the numbers to

be low, according to- rumour, had moved the

counting rod off the road for a while. Some-
one else wanting the count to be honest

would put it back. And yet another resident,

wanting the count high, would burn up a few

litres of gas by driving back and forth over —

the counting rod.
One resident even claimed to have been
threatened with physical violence by a city

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RENTING
IN. TERRACE —
THE NUMBERS |

Percentage of” available housing that | is rental

Total number of vacant units, October 1991: il
. Vacancy rate: 1.7%
Number of apartments In Terrace: 525 |
Apartment vacancy rate: 2.1% -
. Number of rowhouses available: 6
Vacancy rate:0 8 8
Average rent per ‘month, two-bedroom apartment:

Average rent per month, two-bedroom row house:
Number of landlords seeking tenants i in the March ;
20 Terrace Review:1 |

Number of prospective ‘tenants seeking a place to
‘live ‘who used the word “desperate” in the same

Canada Morgage and Housing Corporation, October 1991

‘Source: Rental Market Survey Report, Terrace

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alderman. He said he had witnesses to the
alleged. threat, and in‘a letter to mayor and
council demanded a. public apology.. That
issue remains unresolved. to this day. ..

The traffic study was completed, though.

‘Even though it suffored considerable vandal-

ism. The result? If the apartment complex
were built, a 10% increase in motor vehicle
traffic could be expected on Lazelle.

- With this information at hand,-it was
time for council to decide. The vote was tied -
— which constitutes a negative. vote, accord-
ing to Municipal Act-rules — and yet another |
apartment development i in, ‘Terrace had died

in the formative stages.

Mayor Jack Talstra ‘didn't vote, His prop-
erty. at the: time abutted the property in

. question and he believed that placed him in

conflict. Acting mayor Bob Cooper sided with
Sheridan and Laurent, who were in favour of

: allowing the proposal to proceed. Aldermen

Rick King, Ruth Hallock and Mo. Takhar
liked the idea, but considered public concerns .
and opposed the proposal.

Bruckal’s rezoning request was denied,
The apartment proposal was dead. And that
was the last proposal placed before city
council until the hint of the Yeo St. develop-
ment and the rezoning request for Walsh and
Sparks. Will these proposals survive?

- C, ity planner Marvin Kamenz has
offered a solution of sorts, a new way for city

‘council to deal with the applications. In the
~ past, with few guidelines available, council.
offered all sides in the debate a great deal of
latitude. The end result, however, was a

great deal of conflict. And this, Kamenz says,

- is what has to change.

“Most rezoning applications come out of
the blue, as far as the public is concerned,”
Kamenz explained during a recent committee
meeting. "And that’s where the problem is.”

Kamenz, therefore, suggests educating

potential developers and the general public.
- New proposals that might be controversial

should not be accepted by the city, he says,
unless the developer has done his homework.

. This means the developer must develop a
concept, take that concept to the affected
neighbourhood, and sort out any potential
conflicts before filing an application with the

ae

‘This m means the application would likely
contain specific solutions and restrictions
that the developer and: the neighbourhood

had already agreed on. These guiding prin

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